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Typically, in Westerns, people who are in a Western feel like they're in a Western. It's almost like they know they do all these Western things.

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Ti West
Age: 44
Born: 1980
Born: October 5
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I like movies that leave things in the hands of the audience.
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Everything Jumpy could do [in Valley of Violence] was too much. If I put it in the movie you would all check out. When he wraps himself up in the blanket, that's as far as I could go, and that's not even close. The dog's amazing.
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I've done it with all my films. I always keep an eye on the first time I show it because... I don't know. Neurosis.
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It's a combination of yes - making a movie about the characters - and then, also, budget.
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You have to. But I generally try - I'll creep in the back. I'll be outside. I'll pace around. I don't really get that nervous about whether people like [my films].
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Tommy Nohilly, who plays Tubby [ Valley of Violence], he came down to see the movie for the first time and I was like, You've got to come just to see people react to your [big scene]. I knew that would go well, but it's satisfying to me when he's sitting there and it actually does.
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In general, I go to see the stuff that for me is, Thank God for that actor, he's doing something that I never imagined thank God for this filmmaker, because if this person didn't exist, this movie wouldn't exist. That's why I go to the movies. That, to me, is what's so exciting about this movie.
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One of my favorite scenes of the movie [Valley of Violence] is when Ethan Hawke is sitting at the campfire with the dog.
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I'm not sure I understand the compulsion to label things.
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If you make just a straight scary movie, people are just - you don't know what they're thinking.
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If people don't like [my film], the ship's sailed. There's nothing I can do about that.
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The first half [of Valley of Violence] was to endear you to all these people and give you all these archetypes that you're familiar with, and then the second half, just to see all those archetypes unravel like real people.
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There's nothing stopping you from making movies. You can always make and try different things.
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As filmmakers, the Western is a historic, cool thing to be a part of once in your life.
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It's one of those things, when you look back on it, you'd go, Oh, I could've done without that. If I could go back in time, I would do it different. That's the thing with violence in general.
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It's very important to me to find ways to relate the audience to the characters. This is the first thing to go in most mainstream horror films.
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If you ever see the director pulling people aside, that means something's not working. Because you're trying to figure out why it's not working. But we would show up, we would talk about it.
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It's not the plot [of Valley of Violence] - the plot is the reason to get all these things to happen, all these character moments to happen. It was always meant to have these two perspectives.
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I always talk about movies a lot beforehand, and then we would get there, and I'd say, Let's play around and see how it goes. And they would do it, and I'd go, Well, that was awesome. It was really - I don't know, it was really special to watch them.
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The hardest animal was the vulture. But the horses were great, the dog was great [in Valley of Violence]. It was really easy.
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